Final Countdown

Despite no fewer that four attempts at verbal persuasion one "pump-up song" has failed to adequately excite one local teen. As "Final Countdown" began to play on Track 5 , Nick Berg, 19, did not commence with the requisite screaming and singing that marked the responses of his 3 counterparts. "Dude, this is a countdown, get pumped!" said one friend, observing Berg's musical apathy. "Yeah man, and its not only a countdown, it is the FINAL countdown. There are no more countdowns after this one, it is the last one," added another. Colin Peterson, 18, driver of the vehicle and creator of the mixed CD was both phased and confused by Berg's apathetic response, "I mean I just put in this new sound system for sweet songs like this one. What's Nick's problem?" Peterson also cited Ice Ice Baby, My Humps, and "that Chumbawumba track" as "party-songs" that he was looking forward to playing on his new stereo.

Still Berg failed to get pumped, disputing the finality of this countdown to himself, noting that the song itself was easy enough to replay should he find himself in need of pumping up later. Owing to Berg's having heard this "final" countdown a number of times before, he took solace in the knowledge that this version, as others, might similarly lack in finality. The irony that Final Countdown was far from the last song on this CD and that Track 6 was "Countdown" by the Canadian rock band Rush, was largely lost on his peers, Berg noted.